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A youth-owned agricultural cooperative is helping to end poverty and unemployment in Marapyane, in Mpumalanga, by producing grain and vegetables.

Bakgatla Grain Project is a youth initiative with six members who want to improve the lives of Marapyane residents, especially women and youth who come from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Sports, Arts and Culture

When it was time for story reading in her Grade 3 class Anna Machaka (24), always wondered if authors were real-life people who sit and write books

That was when the dream of being an author of children’s books started.

Sports, Arts and Culture

Proudly SA has launched a television commercial that puts the country’s future labour force (children) in the spotlight.

The organisation has developed a television commercial which demonstrates the direct impact that consumers can have on the future of South Africa's children if they  buy and support homegrown products and services.

A group of women in the Free State are eradicating poverty in Meloding, Virginia, through a community development and nutrition centre that provides daily meals to unemployed and vulnerable residents.

Bomme ba Boithatelo bo Botle consists of a group of women dedicated to serving their community by providing meals to residents who are living below the poverty line.

What started as a passion project for women to be financially independent is now a booming bakery business that has created about 25 employment opportunities.

Matlhogonolo Ledwaba’s The BreadBox Bakery and Studio began as a way of positively impacting the lives of women by empowering them with baking skills.

Ledwaba is based in Midrand, Gauteng.

Fanafikile Lephakha has blossomed from growing up in rural Phuthaditjhaba in the Free State to being internationally recognised as the first black South African to cross the Atlantic in a rowing boat.

Lephakha went to the University of Johannesburg where he became a qualified chemical engineer.

The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has warned members of the public about fraudsters using online job advertisement websites in the name of the organisation to obtain personal information from unsuspecting job seekers.

The Commission has noted various advertisements doing the rounds on WhatsApp and other social media platforms.

The Department of Health has urged South Africans to remain vigilant and avoid known or suspected contaminated food, water and surfaces following the Cholera outbreak.

“Never drink water from unsafe sources such as rivers, dams, or streams, unless boiled or disinfected first,” the department said.

Citizens are urged to visit their nearest health facilities if they experience any slight symptoms of diarrhoea which is a sign of cholera.